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Automating YugabyteDB Deployments with AWS CloudFormation

Automating YugabyteDB Deployments with AWS CloudFormation

YugabyteDB is easy to get started with on the infrastructure of your choice including public cloud platforms, private cloud environments, and any Kubernetes distribution. For example, you can quickly customize and deploy in AWS thanks to CloudFormation templates. AWS CloudFormation is one of the many ways to automate a public cloud deployment in a consistent manner.

Before we dive in, we wanted to let you know that the Yugabyte team has been working from home in order to do our part with social distancing and to help with containment efforts.

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YugabyteDB 2.1 is GA: Scaling New Heights with Distributed SQL

YugabyteDB 2.1 is GA: Scaling New Heights with Distributed SQL

Team Yugabyte is excited to announce the general availability of YugabyteDB 2.1! The highlight of this release is that Yugabyte SQL (YSQL), YugabyteDB’s PostgreSQL-compatible API, has not only improved performance 10x since the 2.0 release in September 2019 but is also production ready for multiple geo-distributed deployment scenarios. For those of you who are new to distributed SQL, YugabyteDB is a Google Spanner-inspired, cloud native distributed SQL database that is 100% open source.

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Achieving 10x Better Distributed SQL Performance in YugabyteDB 2.1

Achieving 10x Better Distributed SQL Performance in YugabyteDB 2.1

When starting the YugabyteDB project, our founding thesis was to build a high-performance distributed SQL database for the cloud native era. Achieving high performance will always remain an ongoing initiative, especially when additional optimizations are required to support new features and new use cases. We are excited that the current YugabyteDB 2.1 release has a number of improvements that make Yugabyte SQL’s performance 10x better on average than the previous 2.0 release (from September 2019).

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YugabyteDB Tricks and Tips – Dec 6, 2019

YugabyteDB Tricks and Tips – Dec 6, 2019

Welcome to this week’s tips and tricks blog where we recap some distributed SQL questions from around the Internet. We’ll also review upcoming events, new blogs and documentation that has been published since the last blog. Got questions? Make sure to ask them on our YugabyteDB Slack channel, Forum, GitHub or Stackoverflow. Ok, let’s dive right in:

Do you have any plans to support UTF8MB4 like MySQL does?

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YugabyteDB Community Engineering Update, Tricks and Tips – Nov 8, 2019

YugabyteDB Community Engineering Update, Tricks and Tips – Nov 8, 2019

Welcome to this week’s community update where we recap a few interesting questions that have popped up in the last week or so on the YugabyteDB Slack channel, the Forum, GitHub or Stackoverflow. We’ll also review upcoming events, new blogs and documentation that has been published since the last update. Ok, let’s dive right in:

What effect does TTL have on performance?

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YugabyteDB Community Engineering Update, Tricks and Tips – Oct 18, 2019

YugabyteDB Community Engineering Update, Tricks and Tips – Oct 18, 2019

Welcome to this week’s community update where we recap a few interesting questions that have popped up in the last week or so on the YugabyteDB Slack channel, the Forum, GitHub or Stackoverflow. We’ll also review upcoming events, new blogs and documentation that has been published since the last update. Ok, let’s dive right in:

Running yb-ctl status does not give node information

Question

AndrewLiuRM over on the forums asked why the yb-ctl command doesn’t give node information when issued after a manual deployment onto a Docker container.

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YugabyteDB Engineering Update – Oct 14, 2019

YugabyteDB Engineering Update – Oct 14, 2019

We are pleased to announce that YugabyteDB 2.0.1 is live! You can read the release notes of this and previous versions here. This release is shipping with 36 new enhancements and bug fixes.

What’s YugabyteDB? It is an open source, high-performance distributed SQL database built on a scalable and fault-tolerant design inspired by Google Spanner. Yugabyte’s SQL API (YSQL) and drivers are PostgreSQL wire compatible

[#1851] YSQL: Support for Pushdown of Aggregate Queries

With the YCQL API,

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Andrew Nelson: Why I Joined Yugabyte as a Developer Advocate

Andrew Nelson: Why I Joined Yugabyte as a Developer Advocate

I recently joined Yugabyte as a Developer Advocate focused on Kubernetes. I will focus on the usability and extensibility of YugabyteDB as a data platform within the Kubernetes and public cloud ecosystem. However, in broader terms, I will be able to leverage YugabyteDB as a cloud-native database that can easily deployed in multi-cloud environments. There are a few things I am looking forward to in my new role:

  • Working for another fast-growing startup
  • Being able to leverage my skills in Kubernetes
  • Learning more about a next-generation database at the ground floor
  • Working for an open-source company

Early Years

When I was graduating from college with a degree in Software Engineering,

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YugabyteDB Engineering Update – June 4, 2019

YugabyteDB Engineering Update – June 4, 2019

We are pleased to announce that YugabyteDB 1.2.10 is live! You can read the release notes of this and previous versions here. This release is shipping with foreign key support plus 16 new features, enhancements and bug fixes. Here’s a few highlights from the 1.2.10 release:

YSQL Updates

What’s YSQL? It’s YugabyteDB’s PostgreSQL-compatible, distributed SQL API.

  • Basic support for FOREIGN KEY constraints is now available!

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